"Integration With Big Ideas in Mind" by Amy Hartgrove https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0 Summary: Summarize 2-3 important ideas that you want to remember from the reading or provide a “golden” quote. Connections: How does this reading connect to your prior experiences or future teaching context? Class Discussion Questions From this reading, identify 1-2 possible discussion questions related to this reading. en-us 2017-03-21 17:14:58 UTC 2017-04-20 16:10:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png Directions: amyehartgrove https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/161597280
  • Summary: Summarize 2-3 important ideas that you want to remember from the reading or provide a “golden” quote.
  • Connections: How does this reading connect to your prior experiences or future teaching context?
  • Class Discussion Questions From this reading, identify 1-2 possible discussion questions related to this reading.
    • *Make sure you put your name! 
    ]]>     2017-03-21 17:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/161597280     Amy Hartgrove amyehartgrove https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165590971 Connection: I can remember my science teacher integrating music into our lessons over the layers of the Earth. Still to this day I remember the song!
    Golden Quote: " Integrating science lessons with lessons from other content areas requires wise decision making and planning. Using big ideas as guides for deciding which investigation to integrate helps to make the most of the opportunities to teach science while connecting to other disciplines. Connecting to big ideas helps to ensure that the focus of the integration will be on rich scientific content, providing opportunities for students to revisit and draw upon core ideas that they will continue to encounter throughout their education and their everyday lives (Cartier)." ]]>     2017-04-10 01:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165590971     Amy Howery https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165596002 "Will this save time or be a more efficient use of class time? Again, an answer of no should bring you back to the drawing board. " (Cartier). 
    Integrated lessons can be really useful for teachers by killing two birds with one stone and integrated units/lessons create a more real way of learning content for students.
    However, teachers must not stress that every unit/lesson be integrated because somethings just don't fit together.
    How do you plan an integrated unit/lesson?

    ]]>     2017-04-10 03:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165596002     Jackie s526157 https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165600043 Summary: Integrating science curriculum through big ideas related to the benchmarks provides more learning opportunities and a deeper understanding of the content.
    Connection: The big ideas approach seems to help prevent compartmentalization of subject matter because it requires students to make connections between ideas.
    Question: What resources are available to help me pull the big ideas from the benchmarks?]]>     2017-04-10 04:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165600043     Tina Mann https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165639617 " Integrating science lessons with lessons from other content areas requires wise decision making and planning. Using big ideas as guides for deciding which investigation to integrate helps to make the most of the opportunities to teach science while connecting to other disciplines. "
    " Connecting to big ideas helps to ensure that the focus of the integration will be on rich scientific content, providing opportunities for students to revisit and draw upon core ideas that they will continue to encounter throughout their education and their everyday lives."
    As we read in the integrating science and mathematics article, it is much more beneficial for students to integrate subjects into one another so why not also do the same thing with the big ideas? Doing so is much more realistic for students and will help them to prosper in everyday life much more than keeping it all separate. ]]>     2017-04-10 11:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165639617     Caitlin Gritz https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165649073 Summary: "Integrating science lessons with lessons from other
    content areas requires wise decision making and planning.
    Using big ideas as guides for deciding which investigation
    to integrate helps to make the most of the opportunities
    to teach science while connecting to other disciplines"
    Connections: It isn't just about finding content in other areas. Picking the right content that will help engage students is key. I always try to find literature because that always seems to engage students. I want to find other content areas as well.
    Question: What content areas do you find easiest to connect and what areas do you find hard?
     ]]>     2017-04-10 12:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165649073     Melissa Peterson https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165649729 Golden quote: "Integration through a big idea yielded more opportunities for student learning and greater potential for a richer understanding."

    Connections: It is always easier, in my opinion, to integrate literature into any lesson. The article gives two ways to integrate other content areas into lessons. I agree that using the big idea is much more beneficial than picking  a topic. Although we have seen great lessons over one topic but focusing on big ideas provides more connection. 

    Question:
    What do you think the New York shark teacher would think in response to this article?]]>     2017-04-10 12:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/amyehartgrove/so8b4ilptho0/wish/165649729